{"id":9335,"date":"2025-10-19T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9335"},"modified":"2025-10-24T20:53:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T00:53:31","slug":"quezon-reinstates-mandatory-face-masks-amid-flu-like-illnesses-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/quezon-reinstates-mandatory-face-masks-amid-flu-like-illnesses-spike\/","title":{"rendered":"Quezon reinstates mandatory face masks amid flu-like illnesses spike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUCENA CITY \u2014 Citing a spike in influenza-like illnesses, Quezon Governor Angelina Tan has reinstated the mandatory wearing of face masks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the increasing number of cases of illnesses such as colds, coughs, influenza-like illness, and severe respiratory infections like community-acquired pneumonia\u2014and in accordance with Executive Order No. DHT-60\u2014the wearing of face masks is hereby strictly mandated in all indoor settings, as well as in outdoor areas where physical distancing cannot be observed,\u201d Tan, a medical doctor, said in a Facebook post on Sunday afternoon, Oct.&nbsp;19.<\/p>\n<p>Tan did not specify how long the policy will remain in effect.<\/p>\n<p>EO No.&nbsp;DHT-60, issued on Dec.&nbsp;27, 2023, requires face masks in all government and private offices, public spaces, hospitals, clinics, indoor settings, and outdoor areas where physical distancing is not possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUCENA CITY \u2014 Citing a spike in influenza-like illnesses, Quezon Governor Angelina Tan has reinstated the mandatory wearing of face masks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the increasing number of cases of illnesses such as colds, coughs, influenza-like illness, and severe respiratory infections like community-acquired pneumonia\u2014and in accordance with Executive Order No. DHT-60\u2014the wearing of face masks is hereby strictly mandated in all indoor settings, as well as in outdoor areas where physical distancing cannot be observed,\u201d Tan, a medical doctor, said in a Facebook post on Sunday afternoon, Oct.&nbsp;19.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/quezon-reinstates-mandatory-face-masks-amid-flu-like-illnesses-spike\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quezon reinstates mandatory face masks amid flu-like illnesses spike<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,23,77,805,806,14,143],"class_list":["post-9335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-hospitals","tag-influenza","tag-philippines","tag-quezon","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-universal-masking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9336,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335\/revisions\/9336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}